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War Experience Enhancements

With the addition of the new region-wide and RvR-wide chat channels we have seen a marked increase in Open RvR participation. In order to encourage this trend even further, we have made an additional adjustment to the experience awarded for killing enemy players in an Open RvR area. Previously we increased this amount by 50%. As of today, that bonus has been raised to 100%. With this change players killed in Open RvR will now be worth double the experience than those killed in scenarios!

As always, we will continue to monitor your feedback and work on ways to improve the RvR experience. More changes are coming, so be sure to stay tuned to the Warhammer Online Herald and monthly newsletter for the latest updates.

See you on the battlefield!

Now this is some good stuff. Now increase the XP from keeps!

yay!! now get the message out that Open RvR is worth more then Tor Anroc.

OK, can I just say - I LOVE that your heart is in the right place. But multiplying the XP you get in RvR does not matter when you have diminishing returns code that reduces your XP to 1 point per player! At a typical keep defense / attack, you may kill the same player 10, 20 even 50 times. After the first one or two times, you get jack.

So.. originally I got 1 point for each player I killed at a keep siege. Then, you put in a bonus and I got 1.5 points, which rounded up to 2. Now I get 2. See how this makes no difference to me?

I love the game and I think you guys are doing a fine job. But this particular series of changes shows that you are a little bit out-of-touch on this subject. For someone who plays RvR regularly, it just seems a little bizarre.

agreed.

ease off the Diminishing returns a little bit perhaps, so its less severe.

I'm glad for this change and I really hope it helps, although, there's still a problem.

There was the problem of having people always in scenarios and not in ORvR. This fix will help this.

There was also the problem of people being in only 1 scenario per tier. This may hurt this further.

Overall, I'm happy for the change, but there is a counterbalance to it
That's a good post. From a lore point of view I would say one should get a ton of experience for participating in a keep seige. I mean these are the things bards sing songs about. Perhaps have a radius around a keep where no diminishing returns occur. Make it a buff automatically applied to those entering the area, like the regular RvR zones do with Glory.
They need to add a bit of XP for taking BO, just a bit, about a 1/3 of a winning scenario imho, since it is a PQ it would be easy

then they need to triple the XP for taking a keep, and add some xp/rp for attacking/defending a keep to encourage you to actually fight the enemy instead of trying to PvE keeps

But this is a very good start to getting people out of scenarios and into the RvR lakes
Agreeing with this. Also - does this apply to renown points at all? There should also be greater incentives for the players to be in RvR lakes even when there are no opponents (up the XP/renown points for capturing objectives and keeps, fix the keep lord public quest loot to perhaps include participation tokens of some sort so it's less pointless, introduce repeatable quests (scouting, PvE and similar) in RvR lakes, perhaps even public quests...). If there are people doing things in the RvR lakes, the other side will try to stop them and vice versa.

This will be a nice bonus for the players who engage in actual PvP combat (if the diminishing returns are reduced), but it doesn't do much to get enough players to be in RvR lakes to do that in the first place.
netting BO should give a realm wide reward or something.

maybe give 500xp a minute or something like that then goes higher depending on how long you control that area. ( maybe 500xp is too high)

example if you control both BO on that zone it would give +25xp every minute after an hour it gives +30xp. the more BO you earn the more XP for your realm. then the other side have the reason to take it and you have a reason to defend it. You would only get that bonus XP if you are in an RvR Lake of that tier.

maybe xp as a reward is too much but something like it that would encourage players to take/defend them.
A 100% increase in is just more ,

Sorry but it doesn't come close to the guaranteed 30k xps grinding scenarios unfortunately

Why not go really out there and make it x5 or x10 - make it glaringly obvious that Open RvR will be extremely rewarding ,

Sometimes baby steps can take too long
I agree.

1. This XP increase is highly welcome.
2. But the diminishing returns are so severe that they pretty much rendering this change useless pretty quick.
Like someone else said. If I get 1XP or 2XP. Doesn't really make any difference.

3. Now the renown XP that needs to be upped a bit with Keep defending / Sieging and around Battlefield Objectives.

But again, like others already said. The dimishing returns are way too severe at the moment.

Hot Fixe

Another round of hot fixes coming your way courtesy of the dev team!

General Changes and Bug Fixes
Players will once again respawn in High Elf Chapter 17 after dying in the Isle of the Dead.
Combat and Careers

Squig Herder
Poisoned Spines: This ability will now fire properly.
Content
Following another round of encounter polish and improvements, we have re-opened the Lost Vale dungeon. Players can now once again confront the perils of this challenging high-level dungeon.
Destruction of Beauty: Fixed several waypoints in this quest that were displaying in the wrong locations on the map.
Eternal Might: Fixed an erroneous waypoint in this quest.
Desperate Gambit: The Black Ice Chests will now be interactable, allowing players to complete the quest.
Unholy Bond: The Blacktalon Bestigors in West Praag will now spawn more frequently, making this quest easier to complete.
Riding to War: Players who destroy the Dragonwake Caller quest item can now return to Cirfandan Whiteflame to get another one.
Shorn Horns: Adjusted the quest conditions so that the quest can now be completed
Out of Favor: Acolytes will once again spawn in Pilgrim's Mount, allowing players to complete the quest.
The Chink in Their Armor: Fixed an issue that was preventing players from being offered this quest again after they had abandoned it.
Torn Asunder: Revised part of this quest to make the instructions more clear and to address an issue that was sometimes not issuing credit properly for one of the steps.
Dance of Bones: Adjusted the respawn times on monsters in this Public Quest in order to ensure that the quest requiring players to enter this area can be completed by a solo player.
Reik River Bandits: Fixed an issue that was causing the "Heavy Lifting" debuff to persist improperly on players.
Griffon Gate: Griffon Defenders in this public quest will now respond to attacks on their Eagle Claw Bolt Throwers.
Barbarous Foragers will now attack players when engaged with ranged abilities.
Capital Cities
Adjusted the encounters in the captured version of the Altdorf Royal Palace to correct some abilities that had been set improperly, and to bring the difficulty of these encounters more in line with the intended level of challenge

That's what I'm talkin' about, Mythic! I'm happy for the Squig Herders. It's great to see these class-specific bugs finally being addressed!

Let me beat everyone else and say that we all know that your CTDs have increased 3x after this hotfix.
Great work, really, but can we have the turret sound fix on EU servers? Plz...
I will enjoy actually using this ability for the first time since it was added to the game in beta. I am curious to see how it works out, since it has never once been usable.

Hooray for possibly making the spiked squig useful!
Ya, and the cloak fix was never fixed as well as the chat location fix was also never fixed. I might be only one but still nto working for me and apparently that was fixed couple weeks ago
MY GAME CRASHES 10x MORE NOW THANKS FOR THE HOTFIX
Well, they might need to reapply previous hotfixes to fix the already fixed issues that weren't fixed :P

Hopefully 1.1 will include the 'full' fixes for these issues, because the chat box location/unlock issue is REALLY annoying, even with a large game window to play with. Personally I think the chatbox as a whole is too huge, and needs to be made much slimmer. Just a window with small tabs and text entry that can be set at the top of the window.

Move that 3-head icon somewhere else, and along with it take the 'Open Groups' icon off my damn Profile UI and add them as icons attached to the map or something.
The content team works their butts off every patch. Are the problems the other dev teams are working in much more complex for not fixing more?
3 patches ago Witch Hunters trial by pain got a buff (shoot on the run) in the patch notes... It took 2 other patches for it to actually show up.

Now the buff is gone again... With no patch notes about the change.

This is very sloppy at best. Lots of credit for the smoothe release but these patches and patch notes are getting sloppy. I rather you take the time to get it right and get the notes complete before cranking out these hotfixes...

Trial by Pain is just one example... a lot of us are getting really confused we don't know what is an intential undocumented change and what is bug.. it's very unsettling.

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Warhammer Online hot fixes for Monday

Yesterday a new Warhammer Online hot fix went out to the live servers that dealt with several content bugs ranging from PvE, RvR to an item fix. The biggest change was probably with The Oathbearer Warbringers, which are now rewarding players for finishing the repeatable Doomfist Crater quests. Also, the Oathbearers now offer the quests to anyone at least rank 18. The item fix simply stops a helmet from appearing for a range of careers that it wasn't supposed to be showing up for at all. So if you've been trying fruitlessly to wear a War Calling Casque Helmet, you might want to check again and see if you're even able to wear the thing.

Mythic CTO to keynote

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